Of the 33 judges currently on the Supreme Court, at least 10 are closely related to former judges, while an equal number had fathers who were lawyers, an investigation by ThePrint has found.
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Legal pedigree not just entrenched in SC. 1 in 3 HC judges related to judges, ex-judges or lawyers
One of every three sitting high court judges in India is related to a sitting or former judge, or comes from a family of lawyers. Of the total 687 permanent judges of the 25 high courts in India as of 15 March, 2025, at least 102 judges are related to former or sitting judges, and another 117 are judges whose fathers, grandfathers or relatives were members of the legal fraternity, an investigation by ThePrint has found.